Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

>
> It occurs to me that it's a good thing that all the major religions
> either use the 7-day week or don't have religious significance to the
> week.  Imagine the difficulties for someone whose holy day was every
> 8th
> day in trying to fit his religious life and his secular life!  :-)
>
:)) Japanese people have a bit of that thing. Their secular calendar has a 7-
day week, but they still have the lunar calendar (used only with Shinto IIRC)
with a 6-day week. Now the lunar calendar is never used, but the 6-day week is
still very important. Each of those days is considered auspicious for some
action and/or inauspicious for some other, at different times of the day. So
when it comes to signing a contract, moving to a new apartment, etc... people
always have them on a day and moment which is auspicious for this action,
depending thus on the lunar calendar (AFAIK this practice is very common, even
among people who can't be considered to be superstitious. It seems that it's
the kind: "well, I'm not superstitious, but there's no harm in not tempting the
devil" :)) ). It may sometimes mean to postpone a meeting for more than a week
because the only auspicious time on this week would be on Sunday.

Christophe.

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